I find this a quite interesting post. Could I ask does it relate to server
side applications, or client side? I realise java is very scalabe on
servers, but is it an issue on the client?

TIA - Phil Stephens

>
> Java is taking over in my shop, except from the COBOL world
> (and even there it is making inroads). A large part of the
> reason that it is taking over is because Java has superior
> tools to Delphi. By superior, I don't mean that you can drag
> and drop them, but that the available libraries tend to be
> more reliable and susceptible to scalable designs than
> Delphi's RAD tools (which are mostly geared towards a single
> user desktop paradigm).
>
> I ran comparative performance tests between the same code
> written in Java and Delphi, specifically targeted at Java's
> weaknesses. Java with a hotspot compiler performed within
> 10% of Delphi on a Windows box.
>